Hat-pin holder.



W. A. COLLINS. HAT PIN HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAYB, 1909.

987,699,. Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

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WALTER A. COLLINS, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEYV YORK.

HAT-PIN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 8, 1909.

Patented lllar. 25%, 1911. Serial No. aa rsae.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VnL'rnR A. CoLLms, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mount Vernon, lVestchester county, in the State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin Holders, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for fastening a hat andthe same has for its object more particularly to provide a simple,ethcient and reliable device which may be readily attached to a hatwithout dcfacing or injuring the same in any manner.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide means adapted tobe secured to the opposite sides of a hat, which means are adapted toreceive and retain a hat whereby the hat is held in position upon thehead of the wearer.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends-my inventionconsists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination,connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described andthen pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, whereinlike numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a centralhorizontal section of a hat with one form of retaining deviceconstructed according to and embodying my invention applied thereto;Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail face view of one of the retaining devicesarranged -upon the side of the hat; Fig. 3 is a face view of the base orsupport of one of said retaining devices with the movable member thereofremoved in order to show the arrangement of the recesses in saidsupport; Fig. 4: is an enlarged detail vertical sect-ion showing aportion of a hat with the retaining means arranged upon one sidethereof, and the point end of a hat pin engaged and held thereby, andFig. 5 is a horizontal section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 2.

In said drawings designates a hat of ordinary construction which isprovided upon the opposite sides of its crown adjacent to the rimportion thereof with openings 11, 11 and upon the outer surface of saidcrown and covering the openings 11 11 therein are arranged securingdevices 12 12 which comprise a plate 13 made of metal or other suitablematerial. The plate 13 may be of any suitable or convenient outline orshape and ornamented as desired,

and preferably made of a material capable of being conformed to theoutline of the hat upon which the same is tobe secured. 14 141- denoteapertures provided adjacent to" the four corners of said plate to permitof said plate being sewed in position upon a hat. 15 denotes ahorizontal slot or aperture arranged near the center of said plate 13having its rear side beveled to form an enlarged entrance portion, andadjacent to the ends of said slot 15 are provided short vertical. slots16, 1h. 1? denotes a movable locking member consisting of a metallicplate having its opposite ends split and the lower portion 18 of saidsplit end bent rearwardly and disposed within the vertical recesses orslots 16 16 in said plate 13 and the upper portions 19 19 of said splitend are adapted to rest upon the outer surface of said plate. In thelower edge of said locking plate 17 are provided. notches or recesses 2020, and 21 denotes a finger piece provided upon the upper edge of theplate 17 midway between its ends.

22 denotes a hat pin provided at one end with an ornamental head 23 andat its point end with a series of notches 24:, 2 1. 2:), 25 denotenotches arranged at the opposite end of said pin adjacent to theornamental head thereon.

The operation of the device is as follows: In order to secure a hat inposition upon the head of the wearer it merely becomes necessary toraise the movable locking plates 17 17 to assume the position indicatedin dotted lines at Fig. 2 and insert the pin first through the slot 15arranged in the plate upon one side of the hat, and thence pass thepoint end of said pin through the slot 15 in the plate 13 arranged uponthe opposite side of the hat. I'Icreupon the locking plates 17 17 areforced downwardly to cause one of the notches 20 in the lower edge ofeach of said plates to engage one of the notches 24. 25 nearest theretoarranged in the opposite ends of the pin and thus hold the pin againstlateral movement within the hat and retain the hat properly in positionupon the head of the wearer.

It will be noted that by means of my improved construction it does notbecome necessary to provide a plurality of apertures in the oppositesides of the hat below the plates 13 13 since the elongated opening 15which has its rear surface slightly beveled to form an enlarged entranceportion for the pin readily serves to guide the pin into place in orderto be engaged by the movable locking plate arranged upon the outersurface of the plate or support. Further, it will be noted that sincethe pin 22 is provided. adjacent to each of its ends with a plurality ofannular notches Qel, 25, the pin may be readily adapted to operate inconnection with the securing devices applied to hats of different sizes.Further it will be noted that with my improved form of retaining deviceit does not become necessary to employ two of the retaining devicessince the pin may be duly engaged and held in position within the hat bymeans of a single device adapted to engage the point end of the pinonly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patsurface of said plate and movably supported "'1 within saidvertical openings and adapted to engage and hold a pin, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination with a hat, of a retaining device comprising a platesecured thereto having a longitudinal opening there 111, verticalopenings arranged adjacent to the opposite ends of said longitudinalopening, a locking plate arranged upon the outer surface of said plate,rearwardly extending tongues on said plate extending through saidvertical recesses, said plate being provided at its lower edge with aplurality of recesses adapted to engage and hold apin, substantially asspecified.

3. The combination with a hat, of a re taining device comprising a platesecured thereto having a longitudinal opening therein provided with anenlarged entrance portion, vertical openings arranged adjacent to theopposite ends of said longitudinal opening. a locking plate arrangedupon the outer surface of said plate having its opposite ends split toform a plurality of tongues, a part 0t said tongues at each end of saidplate being bent rearwardly and disposed in said vertical openings, afinger portion provided at the upper edge of said plate and recessesprovided along the lower edge of said plate adapted to engage and hold apin, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York,this nineteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and nine.

WALTER A. COLLINS. Witnesses CONRAD A. Dln'rnnioi-r, LESTER C. TAYLOR.

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